[Wittrs] Re: Variations in the Idea of Consciousness
- From: "iro3isdx" <xznwrjnk-evca@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:40:09 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "jrstern" <jrstern@...> wrote:
> Isn't this the negative of the fallacy of composition?
> One block is not a pair, therefore two blocks cannot be a pair?
Are you implying that there is something wrong with "one plus one
equals two"?
> I do not mean to trigger a discussion of emergence, but do we really
> need emergence to uncover all the mysteries of pair-ness?
Whatever might emerge from an assembly of particles usually does not
emerge by virtue of it being an assembly. Typically, something else is
going on.
> Anyway I was taught somewhere in grade school, that intuition is
> not a valid argument, most especially in scientific matters.
I was not claiming that as an argument. I was only using it as a
plausible explanation.
Regards,
Neil
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